christcenteredconvoFeb 26, 20199 min readThy Will be Done in (Middle) Earth as in HeavenIn an earlier article I mentioned that Tolkien himself had described The Lord of the Rings as a “fundamentally religious and Catholic...
christcenteredconvoFeb 20, 20197 min readThe Catechism according to TolkienThe year was 2001, and like every other kid in primary school no occasion was more momentous, no event more unbearably anticipated than a...
christcenteredconvoFeb 13, 20196 min readBeowulf – “Heroes Under Heaven”“Alone in the history of the "epic," Beowulf takes place in the "real," tangible, recognizable world. Not in Heaven, Albion, or Middle...
christcenteredconvoApr 25, 20184 min readSpiritual Battles and Fantasy Worlds Part 2This article is a continuation of my previous article with the same title, where I discussed Stephen R Donaldsen’s essay, Epic Fantasy in...
christcenteredconvoApr 11, 20184 min readSpiritual Battles and Fantasy WorldsIn 1986, a writer named Stephen R. Donaldsen published an essay called “Epic Fantasy in the Modern World”. By then a renowned fantasy...